Research methods for Business

For the retake assignment, the purpose is to demonstrate that you master the crucial knowledge of the course in its entirety. In order to do this, please fulfill the requirements below, in a document that is to be sent by email to b.claus.ieseg@analyse.urkund.com no later than September 4th 2016:

1. Consult business literature to find a current, important problem in business that can be answered based on data analysis. Keep a reference to the source where you found the problem in your document. Describe the problem in minimum one page, maximum two.

2. Look up a publicly available database related to a research topic of your interest. Keep a reference to the database in your document. The database should be sufficiently rich to allow for the analyses required in step 3. Describe the origin, nature, method of collection and other properties of the database in minimum one page, maximum two.

3. Use appropriate statistical analysis to answer the research problem. Minimum one t-test and one regression with minimum two IV's should be used. Additional or more elaborate tests should be used whenever relevant (your correct judgement of this will be included in the overall evaluation of your work).

- Describe and interpret the analyses in at least three pages. Outputs of statistical programs should be added as attachments, not included in the text. The text should integrate results that are discussed, but without copy-pasting them from the statistical output.

- Write a conclusion on your research problem of at least half a page.